Capitalism and Struggle Over Climate Change
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the remarkable bursts of unionization at Starbucks in the US, award-winning New York nurse fired for referring to "genocide" in Gaza, and critique of Paul Krugman's argument that "democracy" is at stake in the 2024 election.
Finally, we close with a major discussion on the tension between the realities of climate change and the profit-driven fossil fuel industry that dominates our global economy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.5 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. I want to remind |
| 0:33.5 | you quickly again that Charlie Fabian stands ready to get your suggestions, comments, |
| 0:39.5 | reactions to our programs that can help us plan the future. |
| 0:43.7 | You can reach Charlie Best via email at Charlie. |
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| 0:53.9 | Once again, Charlie. Dot info 438 at gmail.com. Once again, Charlie.com. |
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| 1:01.6 | Today's program is going to talk about unionization at Starbucks, a remarkable story. |
| 1:08.5 | An even more remarkable story about a nurse fired by a hospital in ways that |
| 1:16.3 | raise very fundamental issues. And finally, my commentary on Paul Krugman's telling us for the |
| 1:24.9 | umpteenth time that the upcoming presidential election is about democracy. |
| 1:30.7 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:33.5 | The story of Starbucks is becoming almost the poster child, if you like, of the unionization |
| 1:42.9 | movement that is sweeping the United States. |
| 1:45.9 | It begins with a single store, and there are thousands of Starbucks coffee shops across the |
| 1:52.7 | country, as you all know. A single store in Buffalo, New York, in December of 2021, in other words, two and a half years ago, decided they'd |
| 2:07.3 | had it with the way they were treated at Starbucks, with the way they were paid or not at Starbucks, |
| 2:14.0 | and so on. And so they decided to form a union to approach the employer there as a group, |
| 2:23.5 | not individually anymore, to bargain in a word collectively. And they did so. And they formed |
| 2:33.9 | the union to do so, now known as the Starbucks workers |
| 2:39.1 | united. |
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